I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

It's time for gay people to be in the industry and talking about their stories.

The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

The organizer dedicated to changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the...

The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that Abolition wouldn't have happened without it. The way in which African...

If we have more guys that are willing to help others and not have hatred in their hearts, this world could be 10 times better.

Aska is going to create history and show the way to the entire country by sending a member of women SHG to Parliament and four women members to the state assembly.

The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open the doors that were closed to women, and with the other part, we'd walk through, transforming society for men...

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

When I auditioned to be a reporter for Channel 4's Paralympic coverage I was wary because there weren't any disabled people on TV, and there never had been really. I grew up thinking maybe the public...

CARE and our partner organizations have found that one of the most effective ways of stopping child marriage is to tap into a parent's love for their child. When parents learn about the consequences...

I've always felt that activism and art go hand in hand.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.

I don't necessarily see myself as an activist, running down the street and knocking at every door.

Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of the population being passionately active in that.

It is time for humanity to reset our spiritual compass from self-centeredness to other-centeredness.

When it comes to expanding opportunity, businesses and young adults are not the sources of the problem - they are a substantial part of the solution.

The best thing about my protest has been to see how more and more people have been coming and getting involved.

You know, I am proud of how I grew up because I think it shows where America has come, how far we've come, and I think it is a sign to the world that while America continues to address these issues,...

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

I'm feeling in the earth a massive shift, in especially female consciousness, that is... slightly different than feminism. It feels like this mass reexamination of the stories we're being told.

Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that are explaining the connections between both the genders, literally in the...

We need to see examples of empowerment, because when we see that... it seems like that's the norm.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

Film can be a tool for change; it can start a debate.